Dispersed phase hold-up, effective interfacial area and Sauter mean drop diameter in annular centrifugal extractors

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1379-1389

  Kadam, B D ^a   Joshi, J B ^a   Koganti, S B ^b   Patil, R N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^c Techno Force Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Annular centrifugal extractor; Dispersed phase hold up; Drop diameter; Effective interfacial area; Power number; Taylor Couette flow

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR CENTRIFUGAL EXTRACTOR; DISPERSED PHASE HOLD-UP; DROP DIAMETER; EFFECTIVE INTERFACIAL AREA; POWER NUMBER; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FLOW CONTROL;

CENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 70349485731     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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